The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 12

Toad is dragged off in chains, shrieking, across the market-place where people throw carrots and jeer, over a drawbridge into a grim old castle, up winding stairs, past soldiers and guard-dogs, to the deepest dungeon of all.

Who acts: people · What happens: drag off, shriek, throw, wind · To what, where: Toad, chains, market place, carrots, drawbridge

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	aux:pass
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 dragged	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 chains	case
6	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shrieking	punct
8	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dragged	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
10	across	across	ADP	_	14 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 market	punct
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shrieking	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 throw	advmod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throw	nsubj
17	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
18	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throw	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 jeer	cc
20	jeer	jeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrots	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drawbridge	punct
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 drawbridge	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 drawbridge	det
24	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 castle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 castle	det
27	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 castle	amod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 castle	amod
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stairs	punct
31	up	up	ADP	_	33 stairs	case
32	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 stairs	amod
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 castle	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 soldiers	punct
35	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 soldiers	amod
36	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 castle	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dogs	cc
38	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dogs	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 guard	punct
40	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 soldiers	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dungeon	punct
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 dungeon	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dungeon	det
44	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 dungeon	amod
45	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 dungeon	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag off	present · passive		Toad	chains	to the deepest dungeon of all	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dungeon=Destination
2	shriek	gerund			the market place		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	present	people	carrots and jeer	a drawbridge	into a grim old castle and winding stairs result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer carrot=Theme into castle=Result
4	wind	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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